Edward Vivian (Vance) Palmer was the foremost man of letters of his day in Australia, being a novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet, critic, biographer, editor and political and social commentator. Janet Gertrude (Nettie) Palmer (née Higgins), wife of Vance, was well-known as a poet, biographer, literary critic, commentator, historian, diarist, letter writer, editor and translator. Vance published in magazines under the pseudonym Rann Daly. Nettie was the daughter of John and Kitty Higgins and a niece of the politician and judge, Henry Bournes Higgins.

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